Bath specialist engineering group Rotork has embarked on a series of root-and-branch reviews of the business as it looks to return to higher levels of growth and appoints a new chief executive. The group, a world-leader in the design and manufacture of specialist valves for the oil and gas industry, said it is already...
Each week Bath Business News and Pearson May bring you the top national finance stories. This week we give a summary of the main measures from Wednesday’s Autumn Budget. Business – R&D expenditure credit raised Business rates to be determined by CPI and more. What’s changing VAT – thresholds to remain unchanged until 2020...
Bath architecture firms Grant Associates and Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios have teamed up with Bristol Zoological Society to help save critically endangered wildlife on Madagascar. Bristol Zoological Society (BZS) operates a field research centre and eco-tourist camp in the heart of Ankarafa Forest on the African island – home to the blue-eyed black lemur,...
Bath Ales has launched a limited-edition yuletide beer at the city’s Christmas Market – taking its inspiration from Denmark’s traditional festive brew celebrations. The brewery gave away 200 bottles of Sulis at its pop-up lodge in the market. The 5.6% ABV beer, made at its brewery in Warmley between Bath and Bristol, is...
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) has appointed Bath-based Epoch Wealth Management as its investment adviser. Epoch, which has significant experience supporting trustees and board members of not-for-profit organisations, saw off strong competition from a number of other firms to secure the role. It is now advising the RSPCA...
Bath-based public relations and social media agency Highlight PR has won three awards at the 2017 South of England & Channel Islands PRide Awards. Staged by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), the annual awards celebrate the best in-house, agency and public-sector communications teams from across the South and the most successful and...
While there were not many significant Budget announcements, in a way this was good as any further unfavourable surprises for businesses, such as some that we have had in the last couple of years, would not have been welcomed at all. It is fairly accepted that taxes need to be increased at some point...
Specialist elderly client and incapacity lawyer Edward Vidnes has been made a partner in the Bath head office of regional law firm Royds Withy King. Edward, pictured, who joined the firm four years ago, is part of its 30-strong private client team in Bath and specialises in later life issues, working closely with...
Well, nobody could accuse the Chancellor of setting the world alight. But perhaps we should at least be grateful that most of us haven’t had our fingers burned with this Budget, anyway. The good news for aspirational young house owners – and their parents, who as part of the Bank of Mum and Dad...
Chancellor Philip Hammond’s support for the tech sector – a vital part of Bath’s economy – and his commitment to devolve more funding for infrastructure and skills to the West of England in Wednesday’s Budget have been welcomed by business figures. However, there was criticism that his measures lacked the dynamism and vision needed...
